Space Exploration and ET: Who Goes There?

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Contributors:
Jacques Arnould. Ethics Adviser, CNES – Centre National d’études Spatiales, Paris.
Ted Peters. Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, USA. Thomas F O’Meara. American Dominican and Warren Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame (USA).
Brian Patrick Green. Assistant Director of Campus Ethics Programs at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Santa Clara University, California.
Andrew Alexander, Alicia Benhidjeb–Carayon, Adrian Eilingsfeld, Robert Terlevic, Séverine Van Ophem, Ramasamy Venugopal. Students at International Space University, France.

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We live in an evolving and increasingly complex global community and with this complexity comes a broad range of ethical issues. The Ethics: Contemporary Perspectives brings together scholars from across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, including disciplines as diverse as philosophy, law, medicine and the study of world religions, to discuss these broad ethical issues in contemporary society. Its aim is explore our complex world, addressing both old and new ethical issues through scholarly discourse. This collection of essays looks Extraterrestrial life. It looks at as a discipline itself and also the religious questions that arise in the investigation of the topic. It also looks at the topic of astrobiology and space exploration. The contributors are Christian theologians, ethicists as well as those who study and work at the International Space University based in France but with links around the world.

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Weight 300 kg
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